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Winds drive nation’s largest wildfire toward California city

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SUSANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters face more dangerously windy weather as they struggle to keep the nation’s largest wildfire from moving toward a Northern California county seat and other small communities. Forecasters have issued red flag warnings of critical fire weather conditions for most of Tuesday in the area of the month-old Dixie Fire. Authorities say the fire is only a few miles from Susanville, the seat of Lassen County and home to some 18,000 people, two state prisons and a casino. The fire has already destroyed more than 1,000 homes and other buildings and is only a third contained.

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